Daffodil Day Dilemma

Today is Daffodil Day!

August 28th 2015 is the day we show our support for the Cancer Society and we buy a daffodil to donate money to help doctors research to find a cure for cancer. Cancer affects lots of people in New Zealand and around the world.

We made some daffodils using a Youtube video on Thursday afternoon but unfortunately the origami daffodil was a lot trickier than it looked! We struggled and persevered but in the end we didn't think they were good enough... So we tried again! 

Miss Walters looked on the internet to see what else we could make using our origami skills. We found some cool pictures of Daffodil Pinwheels. We made some changes to the instructions when we made ours, so we wrote our blog readers some new ones.

Here are some instructions written by Room 6!

How To Make A Daffodil Pinwheel.

You will need:
- Yellow paper in a square,
- Pencil or pen,
- Ruler,
- Scissors,
- Hole punch,
- Split pin,
- Gold glittery paint,
- Paint brush,
- Green straw.

Method:
1. Fold your paper into a triangle by putting two opposite corners together.
2. Open it out and then fold the other two opposite corners together to make a cross.
3. Measure 2cm from the middle of the cross down each of the four lines and make a small mark.
4. Cut down the lines of the cross from the corner to the small mark you made.
5. Choose one corner and gently loop it into the middle and hold it there.
6. Do the same to every second corner.
7. Ask an adult to punch a hole in every looped corner.
8. Put a split pin into one of the holes and thread each other hole behind it.
9. Push the split pin with the corners attached through the middle of the cross inside.
10. Split the two sides of the pin on the back to hold it down.
11. Put your initials or name on the back of your daffodil.
12. Paint some gold glittery paint in the middle of the flower.
13. Leave it to dry at the back of the classroom.
14. Slide one stalk of the split pin into the top of a green straw.

We decided that it would be even better to video ourselves to make a tutorial and show everyone, so we all took a part in narrating, video and making the daffodil! Dora and Guinevere were our lovely folding models, Peni and Limiteti were our camera people and everyone else had a part in narrating our tutorial.

Check out our video and see if you can make a daffodil pinwheel to celebrate Daffodil Day!